The Changing Things

The Changing Things (TCT) is the story of 47 ancient monsters trapped in human form, trying to escape a world where they’ve lost their relevance. All they wanted was to die in peace. But as old memories resurface, the 47 are drawn back into community and forced to face their true nature.

The characters of The Changing Things have taken on many forms over the centuries: monsters, dogs, dragons, kitchen appliances, trees, bridges, creatures of the deep, memories, desires, and even ideas. They were the bakemono of Japanese folklore, beaten down by the modern world. They chose to change one last time, to become human and drift blissfully into death. But now something is waking them up.

TCT’s interwoven side-plots include a girl exploited by a narcissistic pop music producer, a man who wants to lose his arms and legs, a real life super hero trying to balance a normal life, an institution on the verge of discovering a new sense, a transmortalism cult looking for the keys to eternal life, an ugly man irresistible to women, a woman in love with a tree, a religious plot to overthrow the government from within. It’s a baroque and gritty plunge down a rabbit hole of broken-hearted, paranoid, and often marginalized outcasts facing the profound possibility of supernatural ancestral origins.

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About Me

Josh was living out of his truck in the middle of the desert with his dog Lucyfurr when he wrote his first graphic novel, Fiction Clemens. Since then he’s traveled all over the planet, spinning stories out of what he finds.
Outside of comics Josh is the author of six books: Nothing in Mind, Shapes the Sunlight Takes, Mystery Mark, Smashing Laptops, Deadwind Sea, and The Adventures of the Imagination of Periphery Stowe, screenplays, poetry and short fiction. As co-owner of Viscosity Theatre, an experimental theatre company based out of Missoula, MT, Josh has written and produced several plays (including Salep & Silk, Ringing Out, Bleach Bone, and Love Causes Cancer).
In his spare moments he reads too much, gets lost in the woods, and dances until they kick him out of the bar. He blogs and promotes the arts at NothingInMind.com, lives half his life in Montana and the other half on the road.